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Originally Posted by GMP
And now they are on a major modernization drive. That new fighter that looks like a copy of our F22 (future orders of ours canceled BTW), carriers, anti-carrier missle system, the list goes on. Once they can project power (with carriers) then we have a problem.
I've been to Russia several times and visited their Air and Space museum in St. Petersburg. Very interesting, you would like it.
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Yeah, the gov. would never sell the F-22 to other customers,save for maybe Isreal or some western country that wouldn't/shouldn't buy a eastern fighter, but Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) the F-35 that was the plan. JSF and the F-22 have had to long a gestation period it was bound to happen. The Chinese do have copies of both. The Chinese JSF copy will and is taking orders from the western(American) original. But come on twenty years to get the thing into active duty? Really? JSF finally did some live fire flights of production models in June or July. The Raptor(F-22) finally was handed over in 2006 for active duty. Wow the proto-type fly off between Lockeed-Martin (YF-22) and Northrop-Grumman (YF-23)was in 1990. The YF-22 won and everyone knew the basic shape of the aircraft and they knew the performance parameters laid out in the contract. I played video games flying the thing on Sega Genesis in like 1993. Hopefully they can maintain a technical advantage in there electronic and power plant packages that make them Generation 5 fighters as much as there shape. Ooops thats alot! Yeah